Takedown: Inside the Hunt for Al QaedaOn September 11, 2001, as Central Intelligence Agency analyst Philip Mudd rushed out of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building next to the White House, he could not anticipate how far the terror unleashed that day would change the world of intelligence and his life as a CIA officer. For the previous fifteen years, his role had been to interpret raw intelligence and report his findings to national security decision makers. But within weeks of the 9/11 attacks, he would be on a military aircraft, flying over the Hindu Kush mountains, en route to Afghanistan as part of the U.S. government's effort to support the fledging government there after U.S. forces had toppled the Taliban. Later, Mudd would be appointed deputy director of the CIA's rapidly expanding Counterterrorist Center and then senior intelligence adviser at the FBI. A first-person account of Mudd's role in two organizations that changed dramatically after 9/11, Takedown sheds light on the inner workings of the intelligence community during the global counterterror campaign. |
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... Kabul was moving farther from Pakistan's controlling orbit as the world demanded a new government, and there was commentary around the globe that the Pakistanis might not let go of their dream ofa friendly, stable afghanistan so easily ...
... Kabul—whether men representing the different ethnicity ofthe Tajik northern alliance should have a greater or lesser share of “power” ministries in the Cabinet, for example—but Karzai's name as the potential leader of this fractious ...
... Kabul but before the fall of the Taliban stronghold of Qandahar in southern afghanistan, so it was not a typical diplomatic exercise. Before I left CIa headquarters for the assignment, I had met hank Crumpton, chief of the CIa ...
... Kabul and then the Taliban heartland of Qandahar. Yet events were moving quickly during those first months, especially when measured against the experience of the Soviets and the reputation of afghanistan as a quicksand for foreign ...
... Kabul, where one faction had rocketed the city so badly that it was reduced to rubble, to understand the mistrust that divided the factions. Their brothers-in-arms had been killed for years by some of the factions they were now asked to ...
Contents
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2 A Return to Langley | 27 |
Moving Beyond the Core of Al Qaeda | 70 |
The Intelligence Problem of Iraq | 90 |
Deputy Director of the Counterterrorist Center | 104 |
6 The Years of Threat | 135 |
The FBI Calls | 145 |
Intelligence at the Department of Homeland Security | 191 |
Index | 199 |